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Morningstar shines an ESG light on all mutual funds and ETFs
EQUITIES OCT 22, 2015
Morningstar shines an ESG light on all mutual funds and ETFs

New zero-to-100 rating would indicate the environmental, social and governance impact of a fund's holdings.

By Jeff Benjamin
Carl Icahn campaigns against corporate inversions and for himself
EQUITIES OCT 21, 2015
Carl Icahn campaigns against corporate inversions and for himself

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Carl Icahn's smooth move to try and halt corporate inversions in the name of tax patriotism is, naturally, also pretty good for his own portfolio.

By Jeff Benjamin
Warren Buffett doesn't have time to fiddle with activist investing
EQUITIES OCT 21, 2015
Warren Buffett doesn't have time to fiddle with activist investing

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Warren Buffett's distaste for activist investing boils down to simple math.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES OCT 20, 2015
Results not guaranteed

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Financial adviser Rick Kahler says advisers could lose clients who expect to be given guarantees. And that's OK.

By Jeff Benjamin
Investors pulling money from stocks ... at the wrong time
EQUITIES OCT 19, 2015
Investors pulling money from stocks ... at the wrong time

After its third-straight weekly advance, the S&amp;P 500 is on track for its best month in four years but investors are heading for the exits in a big way.

By Bloomberg
EQUITIES OCT 17, 2015
Rising rates not expected to have a huge impact on stocks

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Just because Janet Yellen and the Fed are going to be raising interest rates soon doesn't mean there won't be investment opportunities.

By Jeff Benjamin
El-Erian: Don't be too quick to discount a December Fed rate hike
EQUITIES OCT 16, 2015
El-Erian: Don't be too quick to discount a December Fed rate hike

The risk of misreading global and domestic economic context.

By Mohamed El-Erian
A new option for income generation: High dividend, low volatility ETFs
EQUITIES OCT 15, 2015
A new option for income generation: High dividend, low volatility ETFs

Potential is there to meet investors' objectives of capital preservation, growth and income without taking on unacceptable risk

By Rick Genoni
Stay calm and don't worry about Black Monday
EQUITIES OCT 15, 2015
Stay calm and don't worry about Black Monday

Parallels between now and 1987 are thin at best

By Jeff Benjamin
Gender-focused investment strategy skips over common sense
EQUITIES OCT 15, 2015
Gender-focused investment strategy skips over common sense

$1.4 billion TAMP seizes on an opportunity, but its strategy seems ill-conceived.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES OCT 14, 2015
Warren Buffett is having a bad year in the stock market

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Warren Buffett's top stock picks are not doing well this year. A temporary blip or has the Oracle of Omaha lost his touch?

By Jeff Benjamin
Gold rises from the dead
EQUITIES OCT 14, 2015
Gold rises from the dead

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A dead asset no longer, gold shines bright above its 200-day moving average for the first time in five months.

By Jeff Benjamin
It's not too late to hitch a ride on the tech-sector consolidation wave
EQUITIES OCT 14, 2015
It's not too late to hitch a ride on the tech-sector consolidation wave

Record-setting Dell-EMC deal is just the beginning.

By Jeff Benjamin
Hillary Clinton's Tweet-induced biotech sell off has created buying opportunity
EQUITIES OCT 12, 2015
Hillary Clinton's Tweet-induced biotech sell off has created buying opportunity

Sector already feeling wrath of nervous investors, gets second look after presidential contender's comments spark big drop.

By Jeff Benjamin
Banks take center stage in earnings season
EQUITIES OCT 11, 2015
Banks take center stage in earnings season

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: All eyes will be on banks this week and earnings season welcomes the reports from the financial sector.

By Jeff Benjamin
FTSE announces first emerging markets indexes with China A shares exposure
EQUITIES OCT 08, 2015
FTSE announces first emerging markets indexes with China A shares exposure

Allows institutional investors to add an initial increment of China A shares exposure to their emerging markets benchmarks.

By Douglas Appell
An extreme tale of two liquid alt funds in the same category
EQUITIES OCT 07, 2015
An extreme tale of two liquid alt funds in the same category

When fund managers can go anywhere, sometimes they do.

By Jeff Benjamin
Wall Street is now fretting over the threat of another recession
EQUITIES OCT 07, 2015
Wall Street is now fretting over the threat of another recession

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The word 'recession' is being used openly on Wall Street, in case you needed more proof that the U.S. economy is barely moving forward.

By Jeff Benjamin
ETFs having a tough year after roaring 2014
EQUITIES OCT 06, 2015
ETFs having a tough year after roaring 2014

Only 10% in positive territory while at this time last year, 66% of ETFs were up.

By Bloomberg
Emerging-market investors ran to the exits in the third quarter
EQUITIES OCT 06, 2015
Emerging-market investors ran to the exits in the third quarter

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Investors gave no love to emerging market economies in the third quarter, as they saw the biggest quarterly outflows since 2008.

By Jeff Benjamin